Re: [cobalt-users] Bandwidth measurement

[Chuck <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Andres Petralli wrote:

> Dear Cobalt Users,
> does anyone of you know a good piece of software that can be used
> to do bandwidth and transfer accounting? We are an ISP that offer
> Cobalt appliances for rent. Monthly prices are based on
> transfer-volumes. Of course, now we have to find a good solution
> on how to monitor traffic. This piece of software should be able
> to log to a plaintext file or maybe even directly into a
> database. If anyone of you has a good advice or even the name of
> a good application, we would be very glad to hear from you. I
> know there are a lot of other ISPs that have to do the same task,
> so, if you'd like to help us over here in Switzerland, we would
> be very glad.
> 
> And of course, if that application is open-source, even better
> :-)

Check the Powertools CD from Red Hat. There are a number of those IP
accounting tools there. There is also a description on this list on how to
do is earlier this month on this list.